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Now that I’m home and have my own computer, I’m finding more time to research some of my photography questions. (Yes, my husband and I have been sharing one computer for 8 months, and he works online.) I’ve decided to start studying a topic-a-week. This week, I’m looking at histograms. I spent a few hours today taking pictures of our possessions to update our stuff list.
Technical
This is what I know. Most histograms have a five stop range from the left side to the right side. I know that higher levels closer to any side of the histogram means excess, excess light or excess darkness. Your goal is to centralize the information. Here’s an example of a decent histogram:
Here’s the histogram for my image:
The dark light from the books in the back makes the spike to the left of the histogram. The white book really reflects light making a spike to the right of the histogram. The picture is dull and lifeless, and this is clear because there’s no depth in the middle of my histogram.
Now that I know how to read the histogram, how do I change things to get what I want?
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I did not know what a histogram was! LOL. Or that the little box with the mountain shapes was called that!
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